48 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
19. Arraporrys Wray, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 37. A climber; 
young branches rather stout, softly pale rusty-tomentose; ultimately glabrous, pale and 
furrowed. Leaves thinly coriaceous, large, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, shortly acuminate, 
the base rounded; both surfaces boldly reticulate; the upper glabrous and shining, sub- 
bullate when dry; the lower shortly and rather softly cinereous-pubescent; main nerves 
10 to 12 pairs, oblique, curving, inter-arching freely within the edge, depressed above 
and bold and prominent beneath as is the midrib; length 8 to 11 in., breadth 2°75 to 
5 in.; petiole 85 in., stout, tomentose when young, glabrescent when old.  Peduncles 
extra-axillary, rather short, very thick in fruit, sometimes straight when young and 
curving only when in fruit, few-flowered, glabrous; pedicels 1 in. long, stout, softly 
tawny-tomentose, with several bracteoles at the base. Flowers 1 in. long. Sepals broadly 
ovate at the base, tapering rapidly upwards, acuminate, about *d im. long, densely 
sericeous-tomentose outside; sub-glabrous inside, especially at the base. Petals thick, 
sub-equal, ovate-oblong, sub-acute, slightly contracted above the claw, softly adpressed- 
sericeous, except on the glabrous concavity of the claw inside. Ovaries numerous. Lipe 
carpels obovoid, tapering much to the base; the apex mucronate, densely tawny- 
tomentose, sessile, nearly 1 in. long. | 
Perak,— Wray Nos. 2663 and 4006, King’s Collector No. 3615. 
Next to A. grandifolius, this has the largest leaves of any Asiatic species of the 
genus, but from that species it differs in having them pubescent beneath. 
Puate 64. Artabotrys Wrayi, King. 1, Branch with nearly ripe fruit; 2, flower— 
of natural size; 3, flower dissected and slightly enlarged; 4, anthers; 5, ovaries—much 
enlarged. Serta ay : : 
9. Drepananthus, Maingay uss, 
Trees. Leaves large, pubescent beneath. Racemes very short, fascicled on woody 
truncal tubercles. Sepals 3, nearly free. Petals 6, valvate, 2-seriate, sub-equal; bases 
concave, connivent; limb erect or spreading, broad or narrow. Stamens many, cuneate, 
truncate; anthers linear, cells lateral ; connective very slightly produced. Ovaries 4—12; 
stigma sub-sessile; ovules 4 or more, 2-seriate. Ripe carpels globose, several-seeded. 
Two species. | : 
This genus differs from Artabotrys in its members being trees, not climbers, in the 
absence of hooked peduncles, and in having 4 or more ovules in their ovaries. 
Dr. Scheffer (Anz. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg ii. 6) proposed to make it a section of 
Cyathocalyz. 
Petals of both rows with more or less ovate limb. . . .. . 1. D. pruniferus. 
Petals of both rows with narrowly cylindric limb. . . . . . 2. D. ramuliflorus. 
1. DREPANANTHUS PRUNIFERUS, Maing. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 56. A tree 40 
to 50 feet high; branches stout, rufous-pubescent at first, finally glabrescent. Leaves 
coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute or obtuse, the base rounded or sub-cordate, 
often unequal; upper surface glabrous, except the depressed tomentose midrib and main 
nerves; lower surface shortly rufous-pubescent when young, glabrescent when adult; main 
nerves 14 to 16 pairs, prominent beneath; intermediate nerves stout, parallel, oblique; 
length 75 to 14 in, breadth 3 to 6-5 in.; petiole ‘5 to 1°5 in., stout, channelled. 
Kacemes 6- to 8-flowered, crowded. Flowers ‘75 in. long, their pedicels rufous-tomentose, 
